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iMessage Bug Sends Texts to Stolen iPhones

xorjo said:
Restore what? They don't have the iphone, it's stolen remember? This is a fact and I was a victim of this back in October. Unless the person with the stolen iphone puts a new sim card on the phone and uses it or he restores it, there's nothing you can do unless you change your phone number. Simple as that.
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iMessage isn't dependent on the phone number, or it wouldn't work with iPads and iPods eh !!!
 
obyte said:
This is NOT just stolen phones.

I recently upgraded to a HTC Titan from a iPhone 4 last week. I did the upgrade through the AT&T .01 WP7 sale. I activated the Titan and when I did that, EVERYONE who still has an iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch who has ever sent me a text message before the switch, they are still going to my iPhone because of iMessaging. The iPhone has no service and no sim card installed. It is only on wi-fi and all of the texts go to it still.

I can send someone a SMS from my Titan and their response goes to my iPhone. It is super annoying and no one knows how to fix it.

IMO this is complete ******** really and it needs to be fixed. Currently I am a slave to this iPhone now :/
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I am not a techie so having said that, this is my experience. Got a 4s and for a while I kept my 4 and all emails & messages went to both even though the 4 was no longer a 'phone' because I had transferred my sim to the 4s and the 4 was no longer 'active' as a phone.

Then my son swapped his 4 with my 4 and he was using my 4 without the iMessage problems mentioned on this thread. And I was wondering how come? Then it dawned on me that when I handed him my 4, it was about that time that I removed the back up of my 4's data from iCloud and only kept the back up of my 4s.

Could be why my son never had this issue?

I am pretty sure that my son put his own sim on my 4.

I just got my 4 back and using my iPad, sent a message to myself and my son which my 4s got, but not my 4. I think I can relax and go ahead and send my 4 to my sister.
 
zorinlynx said:
Has there been any talk from Apple about fixing this rather gaping security hole?
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Just got off the phone from Apple support on this issue. My daughter had her 3gs stolen and is getting a replacement iphone- The phone had the IMEI blocked, so it is effectively bricked in the UK, but who knows whether it will be brought to life again with a bit of reprogramming, my understanding is that IMEIs can be changed but not sure about that. My concern is that her location or her number might be given away by a message sent to her by a friend which will end up being sent to both phones. What Apple said to me was that 'the imessage bug was fixed by iOS 5.0.1'.

Does anyone have any data on this issue with 5.0.1?

Incidentally she wasn't robbed, or burgled and definitely wasn't burglarized. Robbery is a legal term and requires violence or the threat of violence.

My favourite bit of American English is when an Airline Steward/ess tells me we are going to take off 'momentarily' which in English English (not British English as Americans prefer) means 'for a moment'. So he/she is advising we are about to crash.
 
CaptainCannabis said:
iMessage is proving to be a real piece of s*. Messages are sometimes delayed for 15 min or more, and you receive them in batches. Pictures don't get sent correctly. The sync between the iMessage on an iPhone and the same iMessage on an iPad is completely ****ed up. Sometimes you receive messages on the iPad and got to wait 20 min till they appear on the iPhone. You have to turn off iMessage on your iPad if you want to receive messages on your iPhone at the correct instant and not 20 minutes later. Sometimes the same thing happens, but this time the roles are switched: the message is received on the iPhone first and 20 minutes later on the iPad... Man... Feels like I want to switch to Blackberry again now that they are starting to catch up thanks to their new Bold and Torch... or even switch to Android: a platform that has caught up and stepped on Apple to be at the front of the industry.
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Although you're not wrong, I know people experiencing delay issues - I have never had a single hitch with iMessage and it's proving to be massively useful.
 
CaptainCannabis said:
iMessage is proving to be a real piece of s*. Messages are sometimes delayed for 15 min or more, and you receive them in batches. Pictures don't get sent correctly. The sync between the iMessage on an iPhone and the same iMessage on an iPad is completely ****ed up. Sometimes you receive messages on the iPad and got to wait 20 min till they appear on the iPhone. You have to turn off iMessage on your iPad if you want to receive messages on your iPhone at the correct instant and not 20 minutes later. Sometimes the same thing happens, but this time the roles are switched: the message is received on the iPhone first and 20 minutes later on the iPad... Man... Feels like I want to switch to Blackberry again now that they are starting to catch up thanks to their new Bold and Torch... or even switch to Android: a platform that has caught up and stepped on Apple to be at the front of the industry.
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I find imessage to be pretty reliable, although this bug is a little worrying. as for what your describing, thats how my texts from my carrier often used to behave. I was once bored enough to send a friend the entire alphabet, one letter per text. it arrived in batches, all out of sync, hours later. i havent yet been sad enough to test imessage with that, but im hoping it would be more time-sensitive than sms, and things might arrive in order! At least with imessage, you know when its delivered, and even read with some people... thats much better than SMS, where you cant even tell if the phone got the message.
 
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